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Maggie MacNeil Wants To End Her NCAA Career On Her Terms

After fracturing her elbow last year, Olympic champion Maggie MacNeil intends to end her NCAA career on her terms. How fast will she swim?

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How Fast Will Olympic Medalist Claire Curzan Swim At U.S. World Champ Trials?

Olympic medalist Claire Curzan turned heads at the San Antonio Pro Swim, notching fast in-season swims. This bodes well for the U.S. World Trials.

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Dryland Webinar: BETTER ATHLETES. FASTER SWIMMERS.

Join this free dryland webinar to learn how you can leverage dryland training for better performance in the water. Hosted by SURGE Strength.

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Breaking Down the Decision to Have 2 Olympic Trials Meets in the US

We discuss whether this was the right decision, what led to this choice behind the scenes, and if there may be a better solution out there.

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Win a SwimSwam Practice + Pancakes at that 2020 Golden Goggles Online Auction

Gold Medalist Mel Stewart and producer Coleman Hodges will fly to your swim team and produce a feature story to be distributed on SwimSwam.com.

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Olympic Champion Rowdy Gaines Talks Hammer Head Swim Caps

There’s no more recognizable expert in the world of competitive swimming than Rowdy Gaines. Olympic champion Mel Stewart met up with the three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and NBC Swim Analyst to catch up and discuss Rowdy’s recent endorsement of the Hammer Head Swim Cap.

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2017 FINA World Cup Limiting Number of Races Per Swimmer Per Stop

FINA will be limiting the number of races each swimmer will be able to enter per stop this year. The change will have a major effect on Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu’s event schedule, after she entered nearly every race at nearly every stop last year.

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Coleman’s Carpool: Gold Medal Mel “What’s the next Big Thing in Swim?”

You want the electricity of something big and meaningful and full of emotional grit. And you want it once a week.

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Coleman’s Carpool: Gold Medal Mel answers “Who will be the next Rowdy”

I asked Mel 1) why wasn’t he announcing swimming? and 2) Who will be… the next Rowdy?

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Coleman’s Carpool: Gold Medal Mel explains SwimSwam Origins

Melvin Stewart is a man of many names. But to us at SwimSwam, he is Co-Founder and CEO.

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Gold Medal Mel Interview: “Swimming Isn’t Fair” (VIDEO)

In an interview with Gold Medal Mel Stewart, co-founder of SwimSwam and Olympic gold medalist, the team from “The Water…

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Lessons From Legends, Mary T. Meagher

Chuck Warner, the author, is a coach and an old friend. Thoughtful and passionate about the sport, he has studied the details behind what it takes to achieve swimming excellence.

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9 Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you are jobless or don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our big swimming family! Here are 9 Swim Jobs you might love…

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SwimSwam Film Fest: Swim in the murky waters of fantasy

I’m a swim film festival fan, and I love this swimming video, this murky water fantasy produced by Tomek Ducki,…

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SwimSwam Film Fest: Gone Swimming

I’m a swim film festival fan, and I love this swimming video produced by Maia Media, titled Gone Swimming.

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